Finding Aid for the Smothers Brothers Collection of Television Scripts and Production Material, ca. 1962-1976
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Title: Smothers Brothers Collection of Television Scripts and Production Material
Date (inclusive): ca. 1962-1976
Collection number: PASC 36
Creator:
Smothers Brothers.
Extent:
115 boxes (57.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: This collection consists of manuscript conductors' scores, and parts in manuscript or ozalid copy, of arrangements for the
Smothers Brothers TV show.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dick and Tom Smothers, 1976.
[Identification of item], Smothers Brothers Collection of Television Scripts and Production Material (Collection Number PASC
36). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Tom Smothers was born on Feb. 2, 1937, and his
brother Dick on Nov. 20, 1938 on Governors Island,
NY; both were students at San Jose State College;
together, they began a song and comedy act leading
to appearances at San Francisco's Purple Onion,
the Blue Angel in New York, and other nightclub
stints at Reno, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, and
elsewhere; co-starred in the television situation
comedy
The Smothers Brothers show (1965-66),
The
Smothers Brothers comedy hour
(1967-69, 1970),
The
Smothers Brothers show
(1975), and
The Smothers
Brothers special and series
(1988-89); they both
starred in the Broadway production,
I love my
wife
; Tom owns a winery in Kenwood, CA, and has
starred in the films
The silver bears,
Get to know
your rabbit
,
A pleasure doing business,
Serial,
There goes the bride,
Pandemonium, and
Speed zone;
Dick appeared in the film
Casino (1995).
Collection consists of manuscript conductors' scores, and parts in manuscript or ozalid copy, of arrangements for the
Smothers Brothers TV show,
Summer Brothers Smothers show, and
Return of the Smothers Brothers show; scores, parts and scripts of special material for the Smothers Brothers; arrangements for a Smothers Brothers record album.
Arranged in the following series:
- Smothers Brothers TV, Summer Brothers Smothers show, Return of the Smothers Brothers
- Smothers Brothers TV shows, numbers 1-13 (1974-75)
- Smothers Brothers TV show - miscellaneous
- Tom Dick - special material (music arrangement)
- Smothers Brothers album music score
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Smothers Brothers comedy hour (Television program) Smothers Brothers show (Television program)
television scripts.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and
The Smothers Brothers Show. Available at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Smothers Brothers Collection of Musical Arrangements (Collection 36). Available at Performing Arts Special Collections, UCLA.